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Will Frustrated Homeowners And Armed Posses Take Matters Into Their Own Hands As Home Invasions Rise?

By Michael Snyder, on October 22nd, 2012

Violent crime is on the rise in the United States, and many Americans are totally fed up. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, the number of household burglaries rose by 14 percent last year, and the overall rate of violent crime in the United States increased by 18 percent during 2011. Based on what we have seen so far this year, we will almost certainly see another huge increase once the statistics for 2012 are released. All over the country criminals are becoming bolder. Meanwhile, police budgets are being slashed from coast to coast. Things have gotten so bad in some communities that police are openly admitting that crime is completely and totally out of control. For example, police in Detroit recently handed out flyers with this message: “Enter Detroit at your own risk“. Sadly, you can’t even escape the crime and the violence by staying in your own home these days. Home invasions are becoming increasingly common, and many police departments seem powerless to stop them. If many of the poorer areas of America today, if you are a victim of a home invasion you will be really lucky to get a police officer to show up a couple of hours later to fill out a report. A lot of frustrated home owners have had enough and have started to arm themselves to the teeth. Some have even begun to form armed posses to patrol their own neighborhoods. We are watching America change right in front of our eyes, and it is frightening to think about what is coming next.

The streets of some U.S. cities have been transformed into war zones at this point. Juts check out this excerpt from a recent story about the horrific violence that is taking place in Camden, New Jersey…

At the vigil last week, residents prayed that Camden would simply find peace and that the masked gunman who killed Jewel Manire and Khalil Gibson would be caught.

As it grew darker, Michael Benjamin stood toward the back of the crowd, his son huddled even closer now, and shook his head.

“I’ve known at least 45 kids who’ve been killed in my lifetime,” he said, the boy holding his finger. “I stopped counting in 2004, though.”

You may think that talk of “armed posses” patrolling local communities is a little “out there”, but the truth is that it is already happening.

For example, a groups of residents in Josephine County, Oregon have formed “the CAC Patrol“. They have mounted flashing lights on to their vehicles and they openly carry guns as they patrol their neighborhoods…

There’s no room in the county jail for burglars and thieves. And the sheriff’s department in a vast, rural corner of southwest Oregon has been reduced by budget cuts to three deputies on patrol eight hours a day, five days a week.

But people in this traditionally self-reliant section of timber country aren’t about to raise taxes to put more officers on the road. Instead, some folks in Josephine County, larger than the state of Rhode Island, are taking matters into their own hands — mounting flashing lights on their trucks and strapping pistols to their hips to guard communities themselves. Others have put together a virtual neighborhood watch, using Facebook to share tips and information.

“I believe in standing up for myself rather than waiting for the government to do something for me,” said Sam Nichols, a retired marina manager.

Nichols has organized a posse of about a dozen fed-up residents who have started patrolling the small community of O’Brien, which has about 750 residents.

As home invasions continue to get worse all over the country, I expect that we will see a lot more of this type of thing.

In the old days, we were taught that if burglars enter your home that you should let them take whatever they want and leave.

But these days you simply cannot trust that they will leave you and your family alone. Many home invaders actually hope to find someone inside that they can rape, and many victims end up dead.

That is exactly what happened to one man in Gary, Indiana the other day…

Last Friday, Jerry Hood, 48, of Gary, Ind., left work and decided to go home during lunchtime. Gary police said Hood, who was with a co-worker, noticed activity in his house and called police for help, but did not wait for police to arrive. Instead he went in and lost his life when he disrupted a home invasion, police say. Hood died from multiple gunshot wounds.

“He opened the screen door and started pounded on the door. So I didn’t answer it. And I called my mom. She said to go get the gun and hide in the closet.”

Kendra St. Clair says she stayed in the closet until she thought the coast was clear. So she went to check the back door.

And he was standing there trying to open it. So I got really scared and I called 911.”

She went back to the closet. That’s when she heard the man in the house.

“When I was back there on the phone with 911, I heard the bathroom light turn on that was leading to the closet. And when I saw the door handle turn, I shot him. I guess it went through the door, went through him, and went through the wall.”

What do you think would have happened to that 12-year-old girl if she had not had a gun?

You normally would not think of Oklahoma as a high crime state, but the truth is that home invasions are on the rise all over the nation.

Here is another home invasion story from Oklahoma. A young mother was home alone with her three-month-old son when two men started breaking into her home. Fortunately, she had a gun and was willing to use it…

An Oklahoma woman was recently home with her 3 month old son when two men tried to break in. Armed with a shot gun and a pistol she called 9-1-1.

Operator: “Are your doors locked?”

Caller: “Yes, I’ve got two guns in my hand. Is it ok to shoot him if he comes in this door?”

Operator: “I can’t tell you what you can do but you do what you have to do to protect your baby.”

The mother did shoot killing one of the intruders. Oklahoma police called the shooting justified.

Would you do the same thing to protect your children?

Sadly, criminals are becoming more desperate than ever and many of them do not even care if there is anyone inside the homes that they are invading.

Are you starting to see why I believe that more homeowners are going to start taking matters into their own hands?

Some areas of the country that once had very little crime are now seeing crime absolutely skyrocket.

A while back, I shared what one man down in Georgia says is going on in his neck of the woods…

I worked until around 9:30-10 Friday night, and Saturday morning my tools and equipment were gone. Footprints, fingerprints, a neighbor saw the guys and pickup truck – but the sheriff’s department can’t afford the resources to track them down (by comparison it’s not a violent/murder case or a $40k vehicle…) I have a security camera on the front gate, and they avoided that by a 100 foot radius – dragging everything across a fence and down into a ditch on the other side of the property.

The day before another neighbor literally met and passed by people that had just robbed his farm, on his way back from the store, less than a mile from his house – he recognized his stuff on the back of their trailer. This was in the middle of the day. His gate was locked – but they drove through the ditch and around a field to get to his house.

A local truck repair shop has been in business for 3 generations, and until a few weeks ago had never been robbed. They are on the main street of a little town, and live right behind the shop. The front door of the shop is about 30 feet back from the main street. The thieves parked in FRONT, and loaded up his equipment.

Another big shop was hit on a Saturday morning – main street going into town – they loaded up everything right out the front door, with people seeing them, hundreds of cars driving by… They have bolt cutters, whatever it takes to break in…

Another older shop had a heavy wood door with a metal hasp – they CHOPPED THROUGH THE DOOR WITH AN AXE to cut out the metal hasp. A house is 100 feet from this shop.

We live in Georgia, south of Atlanta, and theft has become so bad, the state recently required all scrap yards to take pictures of everything brought in, with a picture of who brought it, a copy of their drivers license, and their tag number. If it is air conditioning/heating equipment (bigger than a window unit) you must have a commercial heating/ac license or a new equipment bill of sale. People were ripping the copper ground wires off the sides of power poles and tearing wires off the poles for scrap.

A local gas station/restaurant had their AC equipment stolen so many times, they had to build a chain link locked enclosure around all the equipment. You can see it from the main street – out in plain view.

that
shoots the hell out of that “Middle Class” BS. …..here IS NO MIDDLE CLASS..!!

what we have here is a threat to national security.. mentally ill OCD wealth
and power Hoarding Psychopaths, so much money has been hoarded in off shore
accounts and Wall Street speculation, that raises the cost of living to the
bottom 80% every day, that there isn’t enough money left in circulation to
fuel an Economy. that is why there is a recession.http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-F.

Walt

You’ve succeeded in writing an inaccurate, insipid, somewhat comical and completely inane commentary without a drop of merit. I’m considering the possibility that this was written within the confines of the mental ward of Bellevue Hospital. If slothful fools, like yourself, would turn the computer off and exert effort into securing employment much of this issue could be resolved. Whining and stomping one’s feet never solved a single of society’s problems.

Eisenkreutz

Im using my massive wealth to go on a cruise while you starve to death. Bwahhhahahahaha.

Gary needs a job

Lol, gary the crazy commie needs his meds again

Why steal if you can get the government to do it for you, right gary

how about you go make your own money you POS

Cleo

Gary my friend, you are one reason I am about to go Galt. Thank you sir!

James

To Gary2,

Socialism is not the answer. Neither is communism or dictatorship. I am one of the last remaining remnant of the american middle class, but I will not accept that my security depends on someone else’s taxes. If you like that idea so much, go live in Cuba or Venezuela. They would love some new American blood.

THe answer is personal accountability and responsibility. I am a foreign British national. In my world travels I can honestly say that Americans are generaly lazy, spoilt, stupid, ignorant and selfish. Until Americans begin to take accountability for their own well being, financially, physically and spiritually, they will continue on this downward spiral to serfdom. The chose is ours.

It’s comments like Gary2 that make me shudder.

God bless America.

Randome-11

Cathering to the “successfull” is not the answer.

Their success is the destruction of the US as an industrialized country, replaced freedoomn with police state, work with welfare, work ethic with greed, justice and politics with a sad muppet show.

Reaganism/thachterism/liberalism is the moochers and looters ganging up on the producers, until there are producers no more, only a hugh swarm of primitive, needy, spoilt and worthless ***-upd left.

JF

James, what you say is true of many Americans now. Americans from the not to distant past had a totally different attitude and beliefs. The America you see now is not the America of 30, 40, 50 or more years ago. I’m 48 and I have seen the huge change (not for the better) since I was a kid. America has fallen fast.

zebram

dude, you don’t even know what it means when you say a certain percentage of people hold a certain percentage of the wealth. The rest of us use that wealth too. That wealth you’re talking about includes the hotels, stores, companies, etc the rest of us work at and live in.

Randome-11

Tax capital gains and take back the wealth.

You more than anyone else commenting on Michael´s websites should know that poverty does not equate crime.

You get it wrong, it goes further than that, the “system” have sucked the “west” dry, wealth-creation capability itself have already catastrophically collapsed, with only loans maintaining an illusion of prosperity. That is why there is a recession.
There is too much money, due to money-printing by the banks, which benefits only those that have access to it, while lowering the value of everyon else´s savings. It is wealth redistribution on a large-scale for the 4% (Term by Huey Long http://www.hueylong.com/index.php , some 75 years before occupoop wall street).

Donald Wilson

Gary2 your solution is not the answer. People need jobs not handouts. Welfare is not the answer.

Malcolm Reynolds

I smell commie troll.

BIG T

Another lefty blameing crime on the wealthy, I was raised by a single mother along with my 5 brothers and we were dirt poor, and none of us ever went to jail. we were raised to work for what we got, we were raised not to be victims, and were raised to know we were responsible for our actions, so gary2 you are so wrong.

WarriorClass III

The very thing that created the wealth gap is exactly what Gary2 suggests to relieve the problem – More Government. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created the Federal Reserve, which is owned by member banks, which are owned by Mostly Wealthy Europeans which have been enslaving people for hundreds of years. Without this tool of theft, the rich would not be able to steal from the poor and middle class. People would have to get rich the old fashioned way, through hard work and taking risks (a method that actually benefits everyone). It is idiocy to think that the Government is in any way a solution; it’s the Government that enables the enslavement by the Banksters. In a truely free market, the wealth distribution would not be as dramatic as it currently is, but there would still be rich and poor because some people are willing to work hard and smart. Then there are people like Gary2 that want to live off of the efforts of others, and end up poor, as they should be – that’s real justice.

James, the British national says, “…that Americans are generaly lazy, spoilt, stupid, ignorant and selfish.” A self-satisfying, but obviously wrong observation. You really don’t have to look beyond the UK to see those terms apply there far more than they do in America, although those terms apply the world over. At least the debate over freedom continues in America while the UK has clearly accepted their slavery and knows nothing but a slave mentality, while thinking themselves better than everyone else. Are Americans ignorant? Generally, they are ignorant of their cultural history of the Founding Fathers and prior generations and the Freedom movement, but this is due to the enforced Government indoctrination of American Schooling. But this by no means implies stupidity. Americans are still the leaders in innovation as evidenced by the constant theft of our ideas by other countries. And if Americans are selfish, how is it that they give more to charity than any other Nation on Earth? Lazy? Hardly. More Americans are looking for work today than at any other time in our History. Lazy? Just compare America to any other country in the world, like the UK, and the evidence is that Brits are the laziest people by far.

James, you tell Gary2 to go to Cuba or Venezuela. I agree. But you too, should leave America, you filthy Tory. We shot those that came before you and we can do the same thing again. Get the hell out of my Country that you think so little of anyway, you slimy POS.

http://deleted WarriorClass III

Here’s something else to consider folks. One of the biggest legislative pieces of fraud ever perpetrated on the American people (other than the Federal Reserve Act of 1913) was the Immigration and Naturalization Reform Act of 1965, backed by no other than Edward Kennedy. This Act opened the floodgates to allow every lowlife liberal European and third worlder into our country. And the results were almost instantaneous – by 1970 wages had stagnated and the democratic party turned into the most socialist party America had ever seen.

By 1980 it took husband and wife both working to keep the same lifestyle it had once only taken the man to do. With the Fed increasing the money supply, it appeared in the 1990s that progress was being made but the reality was soon evident with the burst of the .com bubble, and wages continued a downward spiral with no investment opportunity to make up the difference.

It was during this bubble that the fraudulent H2B Visa was foisted on the unsuspecting American public. Supposedly a temporary worker program that allowed businesses to import foreign workers at the expense of American workers, this turned into a floodgate by 2002 with major corporations importing workers for every job imaginable displacing even more American workers, on a permanent basis. So much for the “temporary worker” meme.

The fact is that over half of the people currently in the United States came here since the Immigration and Naturalization Reform Act of 1965 or are descendents of those that came here as a result of that Act. And this nation has never been so evenly divided as it is now. This is a correlation to strong to miss, if anyone is paying attention. How many of these European and third worlders end up in the Democrat Party? The answer is obvious. These people come from a statist background; they think like slaves, they act like slaves and they vote like slaves. They steal our inheritance left by the blood, sweat and tears of our forefathers, and openly mock us, calling us lazy while they come into our country under the color of law, unlike their illegal immigrant brethren that are at least honest enough to boldy break the law rather than sneak in under the pretext of it being legal. In reality, any law passed through fraud and deceit is no law at all. How lazy is it when these people refuse to improve their own country, but come to leach off ours?

This country was founded by moral, liberty loving men that crafted a country for their posterity, not some foreign interloper come to steal the wealth purchased at so great a price by our forefathers. This mass invasion of “legal” immigrants have no skin in this game. Neither they nor their parents sacrificed a damn thing to make this country what it is, and have no right to its riches.

Wake up people, before everything you and your parents have worked for has been squandered on these interlopers.

Donald H. Conner

You are exactly right on all counts. Most of the ultra-wealthy are offered first share to impending economic opportunities, investments, and so on, that the average person (95% of the population) never even hears about or learns about so late that there is little or no chance on getting in on the ground floor. A previous writer cited %’s of people in different socio-economic classes, and he was close enough that a few points one way or the other don’t really matter.

What does matter is that the traditional middle class is being ground down by inequitable taxation and the burden of illegal aliens being carried by local, state, and national tax rolls. Long ago, in the middle ’60’s our society started downhill. I recall a line from a song: “Add your straw to the camel’s load, and pray like hell when the world explodes.” Which is where our soiety is headed, I fear.

As the ultrarich 1/2% continue to avoid a raise in capital gains taxes and income taxes, and the middle class is ever more burdened to the point that it is slowly disssolving, that leaves a growing underclass with no hope of improving their lot. After all, if you don’t even know about the oppportunity, how can you take advantage of it?

As to the argument of “unfairly” taxing the wealthy, this question arises: Who has the most to lose if the SHTF in a real depression? They will, but having so much to begin with, as in the ’30’s, the rich will not really feel it, nor will their lifestyles be impacted. Much of this money is “earned” by the ongoing mistreatment of employees, the fact that women doing the same work are paid 18% less than a man, and a host of other social evils. The rest of us will suffer.

I am not raising the Hammer & Sickle, but when any society begins to perceive the basic inequalities between rich and poor in terms of lack of opportuntiy and competition and contribution, there are serious problems laying ahead. This election is the ne plus ultra of the old adage “a bad choice and a worse one”. One is a closeted Muslim who despises America, taking into account the people who have been and stil are important people in his life. The other was born with a golden spoon in his mouth and has almost surely never done a physically hard job in his life, the kind where you sweat as you toil in 95 degree heat, and go home exhausted every night.

He may know business-God knows he ruined enough of them to make his money at the the cost of thousands put out of work (how’s that creating employment? Just great if you are in China or India!)but he cannot possibly understand what it’s like for two people in their 60’s to live on $22,000 Social Security, and have to pay taxes on that miserable little bit to boot.

They both want to open the floodgates to illegals-each benefits in a different way, and neither gives a damn about those of us who built the interstates, the railroads, improved the waterways, paid the taxes that built every public institution in every city, county, state, and the nation.

Ostupid gets the brown vote by subtle racebaiting, and Romney gets the business
(small and large) vote by the economic reward of low cost labor. We in the former middle (I never thought I’d be poor, but I am)class, and those in the lower class have little hope of rising again. The barriers posed by being unwilling to work for Mexican wages, and the unwillingness of employers to pay decent wages, and employer expectancy of impossible amounts of work per hour create hostility and bitterness that squelches the desire to work.

My father always said all politicians were liars and crooks, and the longer I live, the more truth I see in his satement. The sad thing is, it’s not what I learned in Government class in high school. Idealism turns into the worst possible cynicism when we “grow up” and see how things really work. “The public interest be damned” is the byword. I’ll get mine and once I’ve got that I’ll get more, and run right over you to get it too.

I don’t blame those who inherited their wealth, or who created a business and got rich. But they need to contribute a lot more than they co, because, as I said, they have a lot more to lose.

sunshine

Gar,
I think the policy makers are the ultrarich. Doubt they are going to implement policy to favor the common man’s well being.They love money and power over humanity. Just look at what they pay their workers who sell and make their goods. They have no shame inflicting distress on people. No conscience. They will not tax themselves so that you can have a better standard of living. Love of money-greed, selfishness.
Funny that they have to do studies to see what most people already know. Their hearts are small, like the grinch who stole Christmas.http://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/
If you were on the cover of Forbes what would you do with that wealth?

Col. Wilson

Hey Gary2,

Check out this video, it shows how effective your claim of ‘TAX THE RICH & SPREAD THE WEALTH’ will work

People make their own destiny in the U.S.A. They only have themselves to blame.

Kevin

Camden NJ was used as an example. The reality is that majority of murders are committed by criminals upon other criminals. When you live a lifestyle around criminals that tolerates criminal acts the chances that you will be criminally attacked goes up dramatically.

Spreading the wealth around in and of itself would have far less a positive effect than having jobs that the majority can do that pay a living wage so that people can do for themselves. Camden NJ had nowhere near the crime it currently has when their residents we’re employed at RCA, Campbell’s Soup and New York Shipyard. As the gainful employment declined the crime rate proportionately increased.

The implementation of a solution in such an already globalized world may be very difficult and complex but the root cause is quite obvious. All of this did not just happen it was planned in such a manner that the body politic had no other alternative. Both party’s and for the most part their respective candidates supported traveling in the same path. The rest of the developed world did exactly the same.

There is not a single country on the earth where “The People” actually fully control their government.

JR

As a matter of fact, a very convincing case can be made that it is the dissolution of the family, as written about in Ruth Dafoe Whitehead’s seminal work on this issue, Dan Quayle Was Right (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/04/dan-quayle-was-right/307015/ ). To wit: As Off the Grid News points out, “Since the year 2000, there have been twenty-six cases of mass murder (four or more victims) in the United States, as opposed to twenty combined during the 1980s and 1990s. And before the 1980s, mass killing sprees were actually quite rare in this country, usually averaging no more than one or two per decade.” http://www.offthegridnews.com/2012/08/14/psychiatric-drugs-and-mass-murder-exploring-the-connection/ Off the Grid attributes this to psychiatric drugs, but ultimately, this may boil down to the same issue, as the destruction of the family leads to psycho-social pathologies, which are often, in turn, treated by drugs. As one example, the Pew Research Center notes that in 1960, 2% of black children had a parent who had never been married. As of 2008, that number was p to 41%. The results are no suprising:
• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes
• 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes
• 85% of all children who show behavior disorders come from fatherless homes
• 80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes
• 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes
• 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes
• 85% of all youths in prison come from fatherless homes.

So… where do you think the massive rise in crime emanates from, at least in some measure?

DaytoDay

Great comment!

JR

The real truth is that it is the inter-generational socio-pathology that the left has created that has created this society of killers and psychopaths as PatriotPost has noted (see http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2936). Across the west, stories such as the following in the Five Minute Forecast abound (this story is set in France, but it could be anywhere in the Fort Worth or Philadelphia): A “client was recently telling me about her niece, who has had three children, each from different fathers. She now has a new benefit-scrounging live-in lover. In addition to his own benefits, she provides him with free housing (which he won’t get independently) and pays him 500 Euros a month of her 1500 Euro state handout, to try, out of pathetic desperation, to persuade him to stick around. They plan a fourth child, quite openly for additional revenue generation purposes. Meanwhile the first three play truant and run free, mostly to avoid being hit by this ‘stepfather’. They are feral” (emphasis mine).

Eisenkreutz

Blast ‘em.

Prepping for the Future

Michael would you please find a way like FB has to block people so I don’t have to read the idiot Gary 2 post. I mean come on he is brain dead liberal preaching the same Marxist crap over and over again like a broken record. Talk about pyschopath all liberals should be force to read and understand how Stalin killed 100 million people under his tax the rich scheme. But you can’t fix stupid!

Michael

I try to let everyone say what they want to the extent that I can. I believe in a marketplace of ideas, and I believe that the truth becomes clearer as different ideas interact.

Michael

liberranter

People need to stop feeding the troll. Ignore it and will starve itself away.

Kevin

Prepping for the future

There is a great difference between Stalin and the North European socialized Democracies.

“so I don’t have to read the idiot Gary 2 post.”

Have to read? Come on. Do you like to trash the First Amendment and ban what you disagree with?

The delta between the have and have nots has been increasing and with it a host of social problems are developing. When a CEO made 50 x a line worker and not 500 X a line worker and there was a line worker things were a lot better.

“all liberals should be force to read and understand how Stalin killed 100 million people under his tax the rich scheme”

You need to read your history. It was no “Tax The Rich” but forced collective farming and a relocation of the farmers that knew how to farm which created famine that killed millions along with governmental purges of anyone who disagreed with with the official line.

No reasonably prudent intelligent person can believe that policies to facilitate the deindustrialization of the US, deregulate the financial system with the abandonment of Glass-Steagall and with this crush organized labor has been helpful to the masses in the US. Remember that even the non union textile workers making low wages by US standards lost their jobs in the Free Trade madness.

Gary2 has many valid points abet a too far left for me but we been way too far right (actually wrong) for too long.

Neither Romney or Obama are a solution.

Gary2

Thanks Kevin–It never ceases to amaze me at the stupidity of people who automatically equate taxing the rich to being communist Russia.

As you said there is a world of difference between Stalin and the Scandinavian countries.

These Scandinavian countries face the same globalization we do and yet they have managed to keep their middle classes. They are beating the USA in pretty much every measure.

A recent study found that 90% of people prefer the more socialist Swedish style economy as opposed to a USA capitalist economy when they did not know which country was what system and only had the systems described to them.

Kevin

Gary2

In all fairness many of the Northern European Socialized Democracies traditionally made very high quality goods supplying a relatively small market. That commerce has not been taken over by China that went head to head with the US mass production of so so quality goods. Basically Germany and the Scandinavian countries did not get hurt as bad if hurt much at all by China because they competed in different markets.

Granted the lower delta between have and have not (which we also had prior to the de-industrialization and war against organized labor) in Northern Europe has helped to sustain the middle class.

Too much wealth in too few hands equals too much power in too few hands and is an enemy of self government be it a Republic or a Democracy. When Andrew Mellon had the means to financially bail out the Federal Government the concept of “One man, one vote” a cornerstone of our system became laughable.

http://theendoftheamericandream leonard

The rich will not be taxed more in the U.S.A., forget it, Gary, it’s not going to happen!

Eisenkreutz

“Democracy is the road to socialism” – Karl Marx

The Fed, free trade, fascism, and war is supported by both parties, the socialist republicans and the communist demoncrats.

We havent been a right wing country since 1929.

Prepping for the Future

Kevin you miss my point completely. I want a block so I don’t have to read the childish comments from Gary. Yes Stalin under the great tax the rich make everyone equal caused the deaths. Socialism has a great history of following these same lines. But of course the progressive liberal say the same thing each and every single time It’s going to work this time. Sure it is going to.

Gary Right wing let see how great your worthless liberals have done in the last 40 years. God out of school equals school shooting, great job. Ban logging to save a fake endangered species put millions out of work, great job. The owls were never endangered of going extinct and now are having problem finding food because the logger open up the forest more small brush equal more small animals to feed the owls. But who cares it feel good to say you are liberal and care about endangered species. Who cares if 1 million loggers, saw mills workers, truckers, small business owners, lose their jobs. I could go on and on about the idiot liberal eco nuts but why most can’t understand closing off drilling in America cause 3.94 a gallon. You can’t fix stupid Gary. Oh yes Kevin that is my first amendment right to point out the idiot childish liberals that don’t read and preach the same failed communist ideas. Thanks for pointing that out.

” It was no “Tax The Rich” but forced collective farming and a relocation of the farmers ”

Oh yea, you’re right. Stalin and them commies that taxed the rich never considered the farmers wealthy. Yah, they were never looked upon as the rich who didnt deserve what they had, which is why their farms weren’t stolen from them.

Randome-11

There was no Stalinist holocaust, the myth of the hollowdomore was invented by the gestapo, to justifie a future “liberation” of the european soviet-union and spread by the US by William Hearst and his yellowrag media empire.

You can read??? Didn’t know that given the dribble of right wing nuttiness you post.

Graham

Prepping for the future:-

Aside from two points James from the UK mentioned above, I would add “tolerance” to that list. Consider what “intolerance” leads to? I happen to enjoy reading some of Gary2’s postings and that has little to do with whether I agree with what he says or not. Just like you, he is entitled to his opinions.

Contrasting beliefs help shape a balanced society as the world’s resources are not infinite and most of what exists is controlled by the few. Not everybody can be “wealthy”, a word in itself which can have a plethora of different meanings. Many of those meanings are connected with “perception”. What’s your’s?

I have never seen Gary2 asking for anybody to be “banned/blocked” from this forum, so my own opinion of Gary2 is he just gets on with it in a manner where he is clearly not suffering from “entitlement” in the manner you may think. In fact, the wording of your own posting makes me believe you have an “entitlement” issue of your own. Deal with it.

Whilst I have made a few jibes at Gary2 over the months, I do not suffer from the type of intolerance that so many others do in the forums. Just remember, those who live in glass houses should never throw stones at others! Someday, you will awaken to the insanity of your own thinking. Think about that!

Dave Webb

I have been lucky. The car has been broken into twice over 2 years. It is drug related criminals doing most of it. I know one of them because he was my next door neighbor at one time. I told him to leave the ashtray. They are hard to replace. But he is long gone to jail! Lost his home, his job, his wife and kids. It is a terrible thing to be on drugs. But he had his “high” and his family lost it all. He proably thinks it is worth it!
I don’t believe in guns. I use a pistol crossbow instead. At night, I can get 6 bolts off before a criminal realizes he is being shot at. I use a 75 pound light gun with plastic bolts. Though pencils work just fine at short range. The beauty is I don’t even have to wake the neighbors. Haven’t had to shoot anyone yet. Your armor under that shirt is useless against a bolt. It will go through several newspapers and a bail of hay and it will stick half way through a 3/4 inch piece of plywood at close range. The rifle crossbow will go through it and two more pieces. But the bolt is ruined in the process. I have heard some people use homemade bolts made of ice. All that is left is water after they are done shooting. Though it is a close in weapon it is good up to 100 yards by an experienced shooter.
I really think the police need to concentrate on getting these individuals off the street before someone hurts them. They are a danger to themselves and everyone around them.
You talk about little old ladies defending themselves with a gun. I think they deserve what they get, the criminals I mean. Other parts of the world cut off hands for this kind of thing.
I suggest we put them on hard labor gangs. I suggest they be made to pay back whatever they stole from a victim up to five times what they stole. I don’t feel like using 40,000 dollars a year to keep them in jail. If they are on hard drugs, we need a special place just for them to dry out. Then make them pay back what they have stole plus compensation for the time they have to spend in jail.
I am in favor of Devil’s Island punishment for these folks. 3 strikes and you move to a drug free place where drugs are kept out permanently. That will reverse a lot of the crime out there on the streets.
By the way, if you shoot one of these people. Make sure you drag them across the threshold. Makes life easier on the police.

Kevin

Dave Webb

“I don’t believe in guns.”

Your going to meet up with one of these criminals that do believe in guns in spite of all the laws that will put their felon in possession of a firearm in jail. Your going to fire a pencil and the return will be a 9MM.

Good luck with the McGiver weapons system. Because it worked on an anti gun TV show does not infer that it works in real life.

Gary2

Kevin–I used to be one of those “not believe in guns type”

I still do not like guns and have only shot a gun 2x in my life.

That said I have changed over the last year and agree with what you said about criminals who do believe in guns regardless of the laws.

we just had another example this last Sunday with the shooting at the salon in Brookfield (not far from my home) and if someone had a concealed carry gun maybe all the death could have at least been minimized.

I was wrong plain and simple and have done a mitt and changed 180 degrees and do not have a problem with concealed carry. I am still too afraid to have a gun as I am afraid I would probably shoot my foot or something or a kid would get at the gun, however, I have had zero training on guns so my fears may be address ion said training.

Patriot

Gary2: I am glad to see your change of heart regarding guns. My advice for you is to go take a shooting class at a local range, it will be time well spent, handling and shooting a handgun. I assure you, you will not shoot your foot off if you learn how to handle and respect firearms. They don’t just go off by themselves.

Then, apply for a license to own and carry a hand gun. Depending on what state you are in, this may or may not be possible. ( This ticks me off, because 2nd Ammendment and gun rights should apply to ALL states and ALL citizens that meet criteria!!!!)…sorry for digressing.

After you get you license, purchase a firearm AND train with it as much as possible. Carrying a firearm is a huge responsibility, and as a pro gun American, I do believe that one should not be able to conceal carry a firearm with out a significant investment of their time in training.

I firearm can be used for evil, for sure, and is every day around the world, BUT, a firearm in well trained hands can be a tool for defense and preservation of life against tyranny and evil.

Anyhow, I am happy to see that you have opened your mind a bit and realize that often the wackos that decide to harm or kill citizens often can be stopped by a law abiding citizen who knows how to handle their firearm.

If the CO shooter had someone shooting back at him, I guarantee the carnage that that fruitloop caused would have been reduced severely, perhaps even stopped altoghether.

I am originally from the wonderful state of Mass. and those fruitloops up there still think that law abiding citizens have no right to protect themselves against criminals who have no regard for the law AND amazingly have weapons. The governing bodies have some wacky notion that if they take legally owned guns from citizens that crime will be almost eliminated and we can all hold hands and sing kum bai yah, totally ignorant of the statistics that prove their incompetence wrong. It is hard to believe that the anti-gun, anti-freedom, liberal, criminal friendly state of Mass. is the same state the “The shot heard around the world” was fired on April 19, 1775.

I hope that more and more people are waken up to your new way of looking at things Gary2!

Kevin

Buy a .22 buddy and practice.

HecatesMoon

*hug* Gary2
You will do fine, Gary. Be responsible with it, keep it put up when not in use, and put a lock on it on the off chance that little hands would find it, but Gary, I highly, highly doubt that that is going to happen. I believe absolutely that you will be as careful as careful can be.
Your fear of the weapon will fade as you use it and realize that it, in itself, is just a thing.

Graham

HecatesMoon:-

I love how females often word things… sorry, couldn’t resist. You were relating to his “weapon”… right? Scottish humour :)

“Be responsible with it, keep it put up when not in use, and put a lock on it on the off chance that little hands would find it”

mark

I told you about some toothless wonders showing at my place looking around in the past. I installed the electric gate and have had no problems. They can’t go around the gate as they have to cross over a bridge to get to the house. Other wise the would have to go through a few cow fences and a creek. If a collaspe happens then all in the neighborhood would have to get together. Our road is 5 miles long to a dead end and about 12 homes are on it. We are all well armed and together when we need to be. We have plenty of food for a long time and all the water in the world.

DaytoDay

Sadly, we’re going to see a lot more of this, as the economy continues to decline.

I don’t keep up with local news, because every night is the same story (Burglary, kidnapping, murder, drowning, auto-theft, etc.) Just propagating fear and pessimism…

But I can say from a personal observation, that drug use has gone WAY up… A lot of people that I know (Friends and family) Have gotten off the wagon… And so, that worries me, because I realize that most drug use is due to depression and anxiety.

So, of course crime is going to increase, as people feel pressured to obtain things that they want but cannot afford (Mainly food)…

Good article Michael

robert

40 years ago I was taking college courses in police administration at the University of Oklahoma.

The professor had been on the Presidential Crime Commission under LBJ.

The professor made it very clear to have police protection in America was to become a police office or you DID NOT have any police protection.

I never forgot his words.

In Oklahoma we have the “Make My Day” law that allows us to shoot and kill any intruder that enters our home.

Crooks better go to some other state to do their stealing !!!

Joe Rocket

Wow- Typical Gary2 BS. Scumbags with no morals and poor upbringings can have their bad behavior cured by taxation. That’s a stretch even for a liberal apologist and socialist like you, isn’t it Gary?

liberranter

A lot of frustrated home owners have had enough and have started to arm themselves to the teeth. Some have even begun to form armed posses to patrol their own neighborhoods. We are watching America change right in front of our eyes, and it is frightening to think about what is coming next.

Citizens assuming responsibility for the security of their own neighborhoods and communities is a GOOD thing. In fact, it’s one of the most encouraging signs of revitalization in the midst of all the decay.

For far too long people have been counting on “the government” to “protect” them. The last few decades have not only reinforced the fact that government has declared itself to be NOT legally obligated to protect individual citizens or their property (something that it never could do and never will be able to do), but is actually THE ENEMY of individual liberty, life, and property.

Communities standing up to non-government-sanctioned home invaders is a very good start. Now that the precedent has been established and shown to be effective, these citizen posses need to take to the next step up. That “step up” is to protect the residents of their communities from the depredations of the most predatory and lethal home invaders of all: badged, militarily-clad-and-armed “drug warriors.”

liberranter

There’s no room in the county jail for burglars and thieves. And the sheriff’s department in a vast, rural corner of southwest Oregon has been reduced by budget cuts to three deputies on patrol eight hours a day, five days a week.

Cut it down to ZERO deputies on patrol for ZERO hours a day, NO days per week, and the crime rate in the area will probably also drop to something approaching zero. The county budget will probably head back up toward the black too.

But people in this traditionally self-reliant section of timber country aren’t about to raise taxes to put more officers on the road.

Good for them! May the rest of the nation follow this county’s lead. The danger here, of course, is that unemployed badgethugs (long supported by the local political class that relies on them for “protection” against the citizenry they’ve been farking over) tend to be a VERY dangerous breed that just might resort to committing the very crimes they ostensibly “protected” the public against (yes, Virginia, there are still a few naive souls out there who still believe the “protect and serve” myth – probably the same people who still believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy). Worse still, the few badgethugs who remain employed might follow the growing nationwide trend of threatening, blackmailing, and “wilding” their communities into giving them more money, more staff, and fatter pensions, thereby accelerating the bankruptcy path that most municipalities are now on, not to mention prolonging the Reign of Terror.

Instead, some folks in Josephine County, larger than the state of Rhode Island, are taking matters into their own hands — mounting flashing lights on their trucks and strapping pistols to their hips to guard communities themselves. Others have put together a virtual neighborhood watch, using Facebook to share tips and information.

This, dear fellow citizens, is how “law and order” was preserved in our country for most of the first two hundred years of its existence, from the early Colonial Era up until the late Nineteenth Century when some very misguided “Progressives” decided to copy Sir Bobby Peel’s English model. PEACE was maintained by voluntary citizen constabularies who worked, to the greatest extent possible, to enforce the Common (i.e., Natural) Law; that is, the concern was to protect lives, rights, and property, not enforce tyrannical fiats from some distant or unelected political body.

The creation of “professional” law enforcement bodies was the first baby step down the road to the complete destruction of our rights and our domination by armed thugs in the employ of the State. Let us hope that Josephine County’s example, among (hopefully) MANY, MANY MORE TO COME, will help reverse this trend!

OldPhart OutIn TheDesert

All I know is my gun club has record membership.

WM

Great article. Gun sales are through the roof now, and I do believe people are getting fed up with the liberal , incompetant justice system that does not really ” punish” criminals, people realizing that if they trust the boys and girls in blue to save them……well they will die. I think self defense shootings are going to be on the rise, hopefully giving a clear message to criminals.

Michael, I am surprised you have not done an article regarding the 2nd Ammendment, conceal carry, reciprocal laws that were proposed to be passed (HR822), and of course the looming threat of the gubment declaring martial law and “attempting” to disarm law abiding gun owners.

I would love to hear the responses and hear how many will refuse to just hand over their guns .

Gay Veteran

“up with the liberal , incompetant justice system that does not really ” punish” criminals”

and yet we have the highest incareration (sp?) rate in the world. of course much of that is due to our idiotic drug laws

Gay Veteran

“up with the liberal , incompetant justice system that does not really ” punish” criminals”

on second thought, if you are talking about the criminal banksters on Wall Street then I agree

lee

I heard on the news radio station here in Houston that the police are defining an area of Houston called brays bayou off limits because of ganag activity. 4th largest city in the nation and we’re marking areas as places police are giving up on.

I live in one of the nicer areas of houston, tanglewood. when we start having regular reports of home invasions, i know we’re within 3 to 6 months from the SHTF. if criminals start making an effort to go to the homes of the people with money and not just what is closest, you know there’s been a change. most criminals are too lazy to make any real efforts in life.

liberranter

I have a different take on why cops “give up on” patrolling certain areas of certain cities. It is NOT because they are “understaffed” or “outgunned.” No, it is because confronting actual armed and violent criminals not only jeopardizes the all-important “officer safety,” but is also often UNPROFITABLE, especially if the perp(s) isn’t/aren’t visibly gang-affiliated. (Gangs, especially those that deal in drugs and weapons, are potentially very lucrative sources of revenue for cops who would shake them down, whether for the benefit of the State that employs them or as an “alternate source of unreported income.” Of course trying to shake down gangstas is DANGEROUS for Oinky and his pals, who often meet their match in people who think nothing of becoming psychotically violent without warning.) After all, STEALING FOR THE STATE is the primary purpose of cops nowadays. Exercising terrorist violence over unarmed citizens is a very close second.

Ellen

Gary2: Tax the rich? This is just more theft. Spread the wealth? This is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic, not a socialist/Marxist country. The federal reserve/irs are perpetrating the largest theft of our wealth in this country ever seen. How is it that you are not aware of this? Every inflationary action the fed takes further steals from all of us. That’s why everything is so damned expensive and it’s not going to get any better as long as these criminals run things. Our illustrious government is and has been spending billions pretty much daily all around the world invading other countries, assassinating people, giving our money to dictators that never reaches the people, sending “foreign aid” to everyone else……..what about this country?

Think about this scenario: You’re in college, you work your butt off and earn a 4.0 GPA. Your room mate parties and can’t be bothered to get to classes very often. Your room mate has a GPA of 2.0. Let’s share the wealth, shall we? You “know” it’s the right thing to do. You share 1.0 of your GPA with your deserving room mate. Now you both have a 3.0 GPA…….problem solved. Don’t you feel just great?

Gary2

Ellen–I am not advocating that every one have an equal income. Its just that the wealth and income are so concentrated in so few hands that some redistribution needs to be done. Consider that the 6 walton walmart heirs have more wealth and income than the bottom 40% of the entire population. That is simply unacceptable. To make it even worse walmart gets a TON of corporate welfare in the form of their low pay employees getting food stamps.

emptyhandkiller

Gary 2, what the heck does what you say have anything to do with the skyrocketing home invasions? The problem is that the rule of law is gone, and these thugs have come to realize that the cops probably won’t show up for an hour, if at all. And, I don’t blame the cops. They have been stabbed in the back by their local governments, cutting their pay and their numbers. I wouldn’t care, either. It has been said many times on here. ARM YOURSELF. Sadly, the time has come to stand up and protect yourself and what’s yours.

Gary2

There would not be as much crime if we were not a banana republic with a few rich and the rest poor. As my friend El Pollo says when things are this unequal people start to collect the desperate people doing desperate things tax (DPDDTT). I see these home invasions as this happening.

El Pollo–is your take on this also?

I think my first post had everything to do with the topic of home invasions.

El Pollo de Oro

Gary2 in Wisconsin: I think that if you look at the Latin American countries one by one, it bears out what I’ve been saying about the Desperate People Doing Desperate Things Tax. Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica are among the more developed countries in Latin America and have a stronger middle class than you find in Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras; so Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica are generally much safer than Guatemala or Honduras. Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica have crime, but they don’t have the DPDDTT and don’t have all the kidnapping, violent home invasions, armed robberies of tourist busses, etc. that you find in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua or Honduras. I would say that Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica aren’t banana republics or Third World countries, whereas Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are.

In the past, Argentina had a strong middle class, and when the bankster scum raped the Argentinean middle class and greatly increased the poverty in that country, violent crime went through the roof. The shantytown slums in Buenos Aires have grown, which is saying a lot because Buenos Aires used to pride itself on being “the Paris of Latin America.” And I think Gerald Celente is spot on when he says that if the BRA allows its middle class to be totally killed off (which is where we’re heading), we can look forward to all the crime, violence and instability that banana republics are known for.

“When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it.”—Gerald Celente

“You’re going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloping nations. It’s going to be very violent in America.”—Gerald Celente

El Pollo de Oro

As dangerous as cities are in The Banana Republic of America, this is only the tip of the iceberg: violent crime is going to get much, much worse in the BRA as the country slides deeper and deeper into the Third World abyss. But don’t expect the neocon police state to protect you when the Desperate People Doing Desperate Things Tax (DPDDTT) comes a knockin’. The neocon police state will brutally put down any type of political dissent, but that won’t prevent carjackers, kidnappers, gangbangers, home invaders and other DPDDTT collectors from terrorizing people.

People say to me, “but, crime is already bad in BRA cities. Are countries like Honduras, Venezuela and Papua New Guinea really any worse?” Yes, they are because the crime is more widespread. And that’s where the BRA is going. I live in Philly, which can be dangerous. But it hasn’t yet reached the point where well-heeled folks I know in pricy Rittenhouse Square need armed bodyguards every time they leave the house; that will change when the DPDDTT arrives. It hasn’t reached the point where guards carry automatic weapons in McDonalds the way they do in Guatemala City; that will change.

“When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I’ll tell you where it’s really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we’ve never seen before.”—Gerald Celente

“A lot of times, prosperity makes people very, very lackadaisical. They wear like it is a protective cloak, when really, it brings the wolves.”—Alex Jones

Yes, it certainly does bring the wolves, and in Third World hellholes, the wolves are hungry, desperate and ruthless. Welcome to The Banana Republic of America, land of the corrupt and home of the desperate.

Steve

This is not the complete list; it was taken from the 45 Communist goals that found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

(Leviticus 20:13If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.)

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

Luke 10:18And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
In ancient Hebrew the word for lightning is barack, the word for heaven or the
heights is bama and to connect the words either an “a” or an “o” is used.

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” – Barack Hussein Obama – Audacity of Hope

2 Thessalonians 2:3 (King James Version)
3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Political Correctness a term first seen in Mao’s Little Red Book, a communist engendered abomination that is instituting censorship little by little.

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”- George Washington

Carl Marx, once wrote that, the goal of the Communists was to quote,. “enter into men’s minds and cast God down from his throne.”

Matthew 12:31Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

In ancient Babylon their economy was based on usury.
“If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a moneylender; charge him no interest. Exodus 22:25
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. Ezekiel 18:13
Usury is unlawful; expressly prohibited by GOD!
Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution clearly states that only the Congress can print and coin money!

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was slipped thru congress during the Christmas break with the majority of it’s members absent.

The Federal Reserve is self serving and privately owned in violation to the Constitution, charging interest on illegally printed money. Money printed from nothing!
In America On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. Five months later A UNITED STATES PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY was MURDERED BY COMMUNIST!

Our own US Congress voted themselves a raise. (But vetoed a raise for those on Social Security) A member of Congress only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. If some one in the military stays in for 20 years (providing that they are not killed in combat before that) and gets out as an E-7, they may receive a pension of $2,000 per month, and the very people who placed them in harm’s way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.

The debt added by the previous 43 U.S. Presidents from 1789 through 2002 combined was
$6.3 trillion

The debt added by Obama is
$6.5 trillion

“I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”—Roger Baldwin, leftist, anarchist, and Communist, was born in Wellesley MA and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

“If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a moneylender; charge him no interest. Exodus 22:25
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. Ezekiel 18:13
Usury is unlawful; expressly prohibited by GOD!

In ancient Babylon their priest sacrificed babies to their gods baal, and molech.
In America the communist under their socialist programs have sacrificed over 50 million American babies to their god satan!
Leviticus 20:2-5
2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel , Whosoever he be of the children of Israel , or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel , that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
5Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

Luke 22:35-36 Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. 36 He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.

“I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.” – Barack Hussein Obama

Jeremiah 50:16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the SICKLE in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
Jeremiah 50:23How is the HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH CUT ASUNDER AND BROKEN! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
BABYLON = the HAMMER and SICKLE!

Jeremiah 50:14 “ Put yourselves in array against Babylon all around, All you who bend the bow; Shoot at her, spare no arrows, For she has sinned against the LORD.

“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”— Norman Thomas, Socialist Party Presidential Candidate in 1940, 1944 and 1948, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
“We can’t expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have communism.”—Nikita Kruschev, former Soviet Premier/dictator.

All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. Psalm 118:10

“The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!”. George Washington

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Jeremiah 48: 10Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying , Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down , and shall be found no more at all.

“NO KING BUT KING JESUS!”

Gay Veteran

“”26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
(Leviticus 20:13If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.)”

eyeroll, as if that has anything to do with the topic of this article

btw, do you obey ALL the rules in Leviticus?

Eisenkreutz

John Addams criminalized free speech. The ban on usury by the degenerate, evil, greedy, corrupt Popes is the reason Europe suffered untold misery through the dark ages. Sexuality IS normal, natural, and healthy. Gay people are really nice. Why do you hate them so much?

http://www.buddybardoorjammer.com Richard Chambers

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OldPhart OutIn TheDesert

Yeah, a bar across the door is a great idea.

Too bad a truck through the wall will outmanuveur that defense.

When ‘they’ come, it will be brutal, quick and, most likely, totally unexpected. They will have no concern for inhabitants, rather they will be considered impediments, and the focus will be on food and valuables.

Once that raid leaves, there will be a hoard of gleaners immediately behind.

Jarom

The solution… Ron Paul.

Eisenkreutz

He cant do anything to stop it. The idiot populace should have listened to him decades ago.

liberranter

Even if he was elected president, he would be powerless without a like-minded Congress to back him up. Even then, given how the system really works (and hence why Ron Paul could never be elected president), things would still be a mess.

Bill

Its time to remove your sheriff for stupidity, he knows quite well he can deputize and form posses to protect the people from criminals and armed bandits roaming around the countryside, the sheriff should be fired for incompetence. Get rid of him and install another person who will do the will of the people and not of the state and some state attorney general who is some liberal left wing whack job do nothing.

liberranter

The sad thing is that very few sheriffs are aware of, or have any intention of living up to the real purpose of their office. Contrary to long-established popular belief, the purpose of the sheriff is NOT to enforce the (state or federal) legislature’s fiat positivist laws within his jurisdiction. The purpose of the sheriff is to ensure that the full protections contained within the U.S. and State Constitutions are enforced within his jurisdiction. That means, worst case scenario, interposing himself and his deputies between the citizenry of his jurisdiction and, say, federal “law enforcement” agencies that seek to violate the constitutional rights of said citizenry.

Needless to say, such sheriffs are all but extinct (Richard Mack is the only one I can name with certainty). The office of “sheriff” has been co-opted and neutered by the feds, along with every other office in the land.

Virginia

Obviously most of the people on this board are pretty well off and do not want for much and are pretty happy with status quo in the US of A. None of you have lost your jobs to off shoring and are okay with corporate greed because you have been on the receiving end of it. To most of you, it is all about being armed and getting the bad guys. Probably to you, the bad guys are those who believe in equality for all not just for a select few. That is why Gary 2 infuriates you people because you are okay with the haves and the have nots and just attribute it to laziness, lack of motivation and just not being “well connected.”

Gary2

Thanks Virginia. I read recently that roughly 50% of success is plain dumb luck–winning the lucky sperm lottery, right place right time etc Of course there is also the other 50% which is hard work.

we in no way have equal opportunity in this country for everyone to reach their full potential and be financially comfortable much less well off.

Paul

Feel a bit sorry for you Gary. You seem to be surrounded by people who are conditioned to leap to the defense of their oppressors without regard for any balance or even understanding of their own situation. That seems to be a big part of the undoing of America: so many people so conditioned to thinking and acting against their own best interests.

Gary2

Amen–This is especially eveident with the have nots who vote republican which is directly against their economic intrest.

I was at a birthday party at my in laws home and they were complaining about the long wait to get on Badger Care and in the same breath said how wonderful our tea bag governor is. When I connected the dots and showed them that walker was the reason there was a waiting list for badger care and their voting for and supporting his agenda is directly unambiguously hurting themselves they simply said “while I just do not know what to think”

I can almost pity these poor low information fools. Their voting stupidity is hurting their own children.

More than 50% of them didn´t build their own wealth at all, they just had the right contacts. If you have good contacts, you don´t even need to be literate, haha!

Gary2

Like I said 50% plus of success is plain and simply luck. This has been shown is many studies.

Eisenkreutz

The most equitable income distribution comes with capitalism. Do you know the difference between capitalism and corporatism? Do you understand that government subsidies are the reason that tuition, medical care, food, and gas are this expensive? You probably attribute it to “greedy rich people”. No, nothing systemic to see here. Move along, folks.

liberranter

Do you know the difference between capitalism and corporatism?

Most people don’t – and, to judge from the comments here and elsewhere, aren’t interested in knowing.

I harped on this subject for a long time, but finally gave up. You can’t penetrate a titanium-reinforced wall of willful ignorance.

Gary2

I think one will always morph into the other. Capitalism will ALWAYS turn into corporatism. A simply look at history will ALWAYS show that this is the case. This is why I do not show a different between the two as one always leads to the other.

However you are correct that “on paper” they are different. Its just that in the real world…

Graham

Virginia:-

One of the most balanced posts I have read for a while. Your words reflect a sense of reality that so few have because they are so busy living a conditioned illusion. When survival mode kicks in, watch those people change, as most are so disconnected from “source” that it defies belief. No mind is an island!

When they learn where the real power lies and what that power believes in and has done to society in general, they will eventually awaken and help those around them, rather than talk like gung-ho egoic maniacs. Many fail to realise how they are a party to their own problems and of those around them. The key to disrupting a cohesive society is to promote “individuality” at every level. So few get it!

Change the thinking and the perceptions change along with it. Big country, big egos and a big attitude… all equate to long term BIG PROBLEMS. What state has the glorious West got itself into today, especially the USA? The mentality defies belief and the capitalist “consumers” are so easy to spot. The capitalist system in its present state is a corrupt illusion. What you actually have is a form of NAZI FASCISM known as the Fourth Reiche.

To keep the so called “wealthy” sheep in tow, they make them believe in the American dream. Note how everything is rampantly being taken away from them, yet many still don’t get it, so they just blame Obama and shout socialism. I then here them say Europe is a socialist state. Hilarious. Many European countries have maintained a level of moral integrity that the USA has long forgotten about.

The ignorant are an education in their own right and more often than not they fail to see their own blindness. The pack mentality serves its purpose, as can be seen by those foolish enough to single out Gary2 on a regular basis. The latter has actually made many valid points, in his own style, but so few seem to realise it due to capitalist and self orientated mind conditioning. Wakey wakey!

An elite group of people have benefitted very nicely from such “programming”. They have also created a tremendous divide in order to keep the masses distracted from the real issues. So much has been kept secret for a reason. And to ensure that so few bother to look, many act a “proxy puppets” and shout “conspiracy”. It is those who research the conspiracies that learn the truth! Far too painstaking a process for the average capitalist consumer. They are far too busy living the illusion and crossing off what’s next on the list, and next and next.

Imprison the “elite” and return to a humane system. Return what they have “stolen” to the people. When the BIG FIX arrives, there will be no shortage of jobs as people will begin to rebuild their own countries, without the GREED underlying the West’s corrupt capitalist ponzy systems. Other countries will then get a rest break from nonsensical wars and equality may then come about.

Americans (and many others) are about to get the shock of their lives. What goes round, comes around. That time is now. Watch Asia. I await the flack from those that the above is intended to weed out. Please bring it on, or simply realise how you have all been so successfully “duped” by the Western powers that “were”.

“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

A peaceful mind is an awakened mind!

Gary2

Graham–Thanks for the kind words.

I totally agree that individualism is at the heart of our problems. The American myth of the self made man or woman is just that a myth.

No one and I repeat NO ONE EVER succeeds on their own.

If you look at the posts from conservatives you will see that they use the word “I” a lot. If you look at my and other liberal posts you will see that the word “WE” is used a lot. That pretty much proves the point about the individualism in conservative thinking being a big problem.

I am in no way implying that those who succeed do not work hard, just that they do not succeed on their own merits alone. (there are a lot of rich who do not work hard though…)

Graham

Gary2:-

You are correct for various reasons that may elude the majority. Firstly, everything and everybody is intrinsically connected. If they have sufficient knowledge of cutting edge science, they will have a sufficient understanding of what I have just stated. Others will understand it intuitively.

The “disconnected” fail to see many things as their minds are primarily driven by ego (self). Most don’t know what ego actually is, let alone how it functions, hence fail to grasp their own cognitive behaviour. The ego is an illusion of the mind. Reality only begins where illusion ends.

Transcend the ego and you will discover “source”. Focus on your breathe (inhale/exhale), specifically at the end of your nose. You can’t do this and think at the same time, so it gets you “out of mind”. Feeling angry? Consciously slow down your breathing and watch your anger dissipate. Note how the emotions are directly tied in with your breathing?

Take a closer look at the words of another poster who requested you get banned/blocked from Michael’s site. Whilst you were being accused of being a socialist for free entitlements, he was seeking entitlement in his request because his ego was incapable of tolerating and/or skipping past your viewpoints. Rather contradictory, but that is a common trait of egotism.

Continue to stand your ground, as everybody is at a different place within the circle. There are circles within circles, all part of the same machine. When you are through learning, you are through life.

Best behaviour on the 6th dude… and keep off that foot pump :)

HerrinSchadenfreude

.You cannot use science to question the justification of ego. Arguments against ego are arguments of Creationism – the dogma of the pious. An argument of science is an argument that considers complete abandonment of id, or ego, a contradiction of the basic human needs and drives, described in great detail by Freud.

Let me clarify. You cannot do this unless you are in fact a Creationist and your point here is made with the belief that ascension to God is the goal, since such a goal requires the rejection of both id and the science that defines it in favor of faith.

Is that what you’re actually trying to get at?

Kevin

Gary2

I ask who are the “they” that facilitate the self made person. I know of people that climbed from the bottom poor and put themselves through college and became professionals. For the life of me other than giving credit to farmers for growing food and factories building modes of transportation I can’t see where outside help came from. The Henry Ford of old Steve Jobs in modern times created while and conversely collective societies focused on redistributing what was created thereby creating nothing themselves.

I’m with you on a tax percentage that clips the wealthy more bringing it more in line with the traditional rates we had during the post war US economic boom. But the idea that government creates wealth is false. It took violent strikes one of which involved a personal hero of mine Walter Reuther who almost lost his life to get working people a piece of the pie. But make no mistake that Henry Ford created that pie.

Pure unregulated capitalism sucks. Just look at how workers were treated before the Wagner Act of 1935. It wasn’t a pretty picture. Pure socialism on the other hand plainly does not work.

“No one’s right when everybody’s wrong” CSN / Buffalo Springfield

HerrinSchadenfreude

Although I can appreciate the approach you took here as well as the regard for others that inspired you to spend the time it took to write this, and in fact agree with several of your points? Your overall theme, as well as Gary2’s below, self contradicts.

1. There’s no point in compelled cohesiveness. Even the God that inspires so many ideals and posts like yours considers it useless to compel man to accept that path. It is only valid if done by choice. Choice and individuality are inseparable.

If you doubt the truth of this, consider the failures of compelled racial awareness and equality acceptance in this country. All the equal opportunity laws have done is treat the symptom, dragging white Americans by the neck into compliance without any acceptance whatsoever of the principles being complied with. This in turn worsens conditions for non-whites, who then must deal with that resentment in all things and look with dubious eyes upon any show of kindness or tolerance from those of different color, because actual belief in equality cannot be mandated, and so cannot be guaranteed to exist.

Further, the same human drive for accomplishment is present in all of us, regardless of color. Some have let despair and/or bitterness beat that drive down. For those non-whites who have not? They openly resent attempts to foist them on people without the concept of actual respect and acceptance being made a requirement.

So, as in most things, forced unity between races has failed, because no attempt has been made to change hearts. Only to change laws. That will continue to fail, as will anyone subscribing to vision of the future who does not understand that without the passion of the individual, and the individual choice and need to contribute to something one freely considers to be bigger than ones self, such visions are nothing but charades and mockeries.

2. Arresting and removing the puppeteers controlling the puppets is something you appear to be touching on. Puppets don’t usurp puppet masters. For a puppet to do so requires the individual decision to take ones own strings in hand. And the courage to live with that decision alone.

3. It was an individualistic choice of yours that led you to post a view on a site in which it could not possibly be popular, and to live with the consequences, because motives which you alone determined made it worth the effort.

What you are suggesting can never come to pass without each person in the group making a personal commitment to see it through. For their own reasons. It can never come to pass in the midst of the abandonment of individuality.

Sorry.

some guy

Below is a verse from a song by Mobb Deep. It was released around 1995. The guy was on the Alex Jones show a year or more back.

[Prodigy]
There’s a war goin on outside, no man is safe from
You could run but you can’t hide forever
from these, streets, that we done took
You walkin witcha head down scared to look
You shook, cause ain’t no such things as halfway crooks
They never around when the beef cooks in my part of town
It’s similar to Vietnam
Now we all grown up and old, and beyond the cop’s control
They better have the riot gear ready
Tryin to bag me and get rocked steady
by the mac one-double, I’ll cut you
and leave you with not much to go home wit
My skin is thick, cause I be up in the mix of action
if I’m not at home, puffin lye relaxin
New York got a nigga depressed
So I wear a slug-proof underneath my Guess
God bless my soul, before I put my foot down and begin to stroll
And to the drama I built, and all unfinished beef
You will soon be killed, put us together
It’s like mixin vodka and milk
I’m goin out blastin, takin my enemies with me
and if not, they scarred, so they will never forget me
Lord forgive me the Hennesey got me not knowin how to act
I’m fallin and I can’t turn back
or maybe it’s the words from my man Killa Black
that I can’t say so it’s left a untold fact, until my death
My goal’s to stay alive
Survival of the fit only the strong survive

Johannan Baptiste

Get a gun. Learn how to use it. All except for the anti-gun states. All the criminals can go there. Lots of unarmed citizens there that won’t fight back. Take all you want there. Pillage, rape and murder. Hey, get a gun. Learn how, learn when AND LEARN USE IT….

rita

Hey, I like you ” Jarom” I love Dr. Ron Paul too! he talks about sound money, and currency, going back to the “Gold standard, the federal reserve is whats causing our bad economy, plus yes its true America has turned its back on our constitution, and the Lord. We get the leaders we deserve. I myself, own a few shot guns, i live in Connecticut, rember the Dr. Petite case? his home was invaded, and the stupid burglers, raped his 14 year old daughter, and hurt the other one, and killed them both and his wife. It was so sad. they deserve the death penalty. our laws help criminals more than the good folks. Anyway, the govt. is stocking up on alot of ammunition, so I just thought i’d warn everyone, theres gonna be ” civil Unrest” soon. The dollar is gonna collapse, Ron Paul warned us, were bankrupt. so buy some silver, gold, and lead! Take care.

juansays

I escaped Venezuela and the corrupt rule of Communist thug Hugo Chavez who has destroyed the middle class and made the country poorer with spread the wealth schemes. It’s so sad for me to come to this Country (legally) and find so many people like Gary2 who want the Communist hell that I escaped. It’s a shame that the USA has caught the Venezuela Communist disease and has chosen to elect a scary Marxist extremist like Obama.

Gary2

I never said I want communism, never. It is simply your low information to yell communism at things you can not understand. I pity you.

Witness-311

Good for Venezuela that “patriots” like you leaves it.

Chavez should have been harsher on ***** like you, he didn´t seize your wealth and deport you to the mines, it is just that he forced you to contribute to society too instead of just milking it of its advantages.

Patriot

Guns seem to be popular now, and sales are through the roof. This is exactly what the globalists want, people like George Soros, who owns a company who bought Marlin, Remington, etc. and I even read that he owns several ammo companies.

I have not seen an article on this site regarding the 2nd Ammendment and how it relates to Homeland Security/Patriot Act. The globalists, (Government) knows that if it can remove firearms from law abiding citizens, ( criminals will always have them), that it can really start to control and suppress the people. The 2nd Ammendment was created as a safeguard against a tyrannical government. Don’t be fooled by all the rising gun sales, and seemingly increase in gun rights as far as conceal carry. This is making George Soros and his fellow globalist very rich. All we need is a major disaster or crisis for the government to declare martial law, and that will give them the right to take whatever they want…..UNLESS, people say enough is enough and fight back, like those dear Patriots did back in April 19, 1775.

With 300 million+ firearms legally owned in this nation, there is no doubt in my mind, if enough people with firearms stood up and said NO!!!!!! there may be a good chance that the government would not take firearms away. It would probably result in a revolution/civil war, with freedom loving citizens fighting the government???

Two things I know to be true:

1) If legally owned firearms are taken from citizens, this will be a hellish totalitarian society, and criminals WILL still have guns, and they will kill, rob, rape and steal whenever they want, and citizens would have no way of defending themselves.

2) If the guns are ever taken away, then we will know that the Constitution is dead and America is dead, and all the freedoms we all enjoy…will be gone!

Don’t just get a gun and learn how to use it, learn the laws, and GET INVOLVED in fighting to keep that freedom. DON’T JUST ASSUME THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE THAT FREEDOM THAT WE ARE ENTITLED TO IT. There are MANY politicians who want to strip citizens of firearms…obummer and his posse are but a few of the Constitution haters who want to enslave you and strip your freedoms away.

Groener

The Pats would have lost if France’s king Louis XVI didn’t risk his country’s fortune to bail out the colonists.

For this, America didn’t lift a finger when King Louis lost his head, and it didn’t try to aid his son Louis XVII, who died in the slums.

Which means, no sane country will help american Pats the next time.

Groener

Well, in the near future, a lot of the ‘intruders’ will be uniformed.

Self-defense doesn’t exist in their book. They will just wipe out everyone in the house and the courts will rubber-stamp their act.

That happens every day in Suidafrika and Rhodesia already.

liberranter

Yep. I’m amazed that people still justify their gun ownership by fixating on non-state-employed criminals. It’s the ones in the moronic uniforms who are the real threat.

Self-defense is the right of every individual.Get armed and be ready to defend yourselves and your family. MEN:do your part and behave like MEN and defend your wives,your children and yourselves as every MAN is supposed to do.Leave behind the effeminacy that prevails nowadays because of technology and the easiness of life that such affords.Rather read ancient history and document yourselves about how MEN were back then!Read about the Spartans and other Greeks who valiantly faced the vast Persian army under Xerxes, which came to Greece with the only purpose of destroy and enslave its inhabitants!Had they failed to do so and had they behaved like cowards,heck I think the world would have been a total different one right now! Or read about how the Jews in the 400s BC, when working on the reconstruction of Jerusalem,how they held their swords with one hand and performed the work with the other,always ready to defend themselves and their families against their enemies!Read about those things and then close your eyes and imagine you are there!What would you do?Would you behave like a brave man or like a coward?THINK ABOUT IT!!!

Here is one to read and watch very closely. The major cracks in the phoney corrupt system are beginning to appear on a broader range of sites. This is just one of “many things” that are coming to the surface for “all” to see. After a thorough “clean out”, hope will return. You know my position and what I have said all along. It is an almighty sized jigsaw!

[Will post this to your other 2 sites as all need to know what “should” be coming].

Perhaps we will return to the days of the old west. Didn’t we call this country the land of opportunity’ back then? Maybe we should do the same all over again.

http://theendoftheamericandream leonard

I forgot something! The people who get injured withh bullets today will end up in the emergency rooms with huge bills that they will never pay. They will skyrocket all of our health insurance premiums as a result,and the insurance companies will profit like never before! Not bad!

Patriot

Home invasions here are on the increase, and in many affluent neighborhoods. Ever since the Chesire, CT home invasion, people of CT have been fighting back. There have been more than a few attempted home invasions gone bad, where the home owner used a firearms to defend and resulted in invader being shot and a few occasions, killed.

Sadly, there is a hint of liberal, anti gun mentality here that still seems to believe that if law abiding citizens have no guns, that all of a sudden all this crime would stop. This mentality is beyond my comprehension to even begin to grasp how they think this is reality.

Sadly, a few store owners in the inner cities have been shot and killed after robberies…again, store clerks did not have firearms!!!

A lot of the store owners are immigrants and are either perhaps too afraid to be caught using a gun to defend themselves, or else are still a little naive’ in thinking that this is the promised land in comparison to where they cam from, and everyone is good here. There are at least (2) store clerks/owners that are dead now because they found out that criminals in America have no regard for life and authority and most likely will shoot and kill you if they are (illegally) armed.

Its time to vote people, to kick the anti 2nd Amendment/freedom crowd out of office, and bring a new awareness to how firearms, when used properly, could in fact save your life and the lives of others or loved ones, against criminals who are intent on taking what you have, or hurting/killing you so they can get their next ‘fix”.

The law breaking criminals will ALWAYS have access to guns, and will not hesitate to use them. The boys in blue will ALWAYS be too late to protect you. One of the best “insurance” policies is owning a firearm AND knowing how to use it very efficiently and lawfully.

Kevin

Patriot

“A lot of the store owners are immigrants and are either perhaps too afraid to be caught using a gun to defend themselves”

I believe you have that idea correct. They are conditioned to believe that common people using or even having a gun is inherently wrong. That mindset is necessary for firearms confiscation to actually work so getting a non shooter to become a shooter is a nobel endeavor. A close friend of mine with a CCP has a neighbor that immigrated from South Korea and owns a grocery store in Philadelphia. He had a few physical attacks from local thugs and held his own because he taught tae quan do (spelling?) in the ROK Army and kept up the training. My friend guided this gentleman through purchase and the carry permit procedure in Delaware which once obtained allowed Pennsylvania to issue this upstanding ultra hard working gentleman a permit to carry. The man is so thankful and has stated that this is real freedom, the freedom to defend yourself.

Patriot

Kevin:

Thank you for sharing that with us, that is good news indeed. Reminds me of the store owners shooting back during the LA Riots. I may be mistaken, but I think the people they showed were also Koreans that were fed up and held their ground. Now, if Reginald Denny would have had a CCW………??????